འཕགས་པ་དཔལ་ཆན་མའ་མད notes: Notes
The Sūtra of Mahāśrī notes
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1. Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti (’jam dpal mtshan brjod, Toh 360).
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2. dpal gyi lha mo chen mo’i mtshan bcu gnyis pa, Toh 741/1006. See The Twelve Names of the Goddess Śrī .
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3. This text, Toh 1005, and all those contained in this same volume (gzungs ’dus, waM), are listed as being located in volume 101 of the Degé Kangyur by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). However, several other Kangyur databases—including the eKangyur that supplies the digital input version displayed by the 84000 Reading Room—list this work as being located in volume 102. This discrepancy is partly due to the fact that the two volumes of the gzungs ’dus section are an added supplement not mentioned in the original catalog, and also hinges on the fact that the compilers of the Tōhoku catalog placed another text—which forms a whole, very large volume—the Vimalaprabhānāmakālacakratantraṭīkā (dus ’khor ’grel bshad dri med ’od, Toh 845), before the volume 100 of the Degé Kangyur, numbering it as vol. 100, although it is almost certainly intended to come right at the end of the Degé Kangyur texts as volume 102; indeed its final fifth chapter is often carried over and wrapped in the same volume as the Kangyur dkar chags (catalog). Please note this discrepancy when using the eKangyur viewer in this translation. Note that there is a discrepancy among various databases for cataloging the Toh 1005 version of this text within vol. 101 or 102 of the Degé Kangyur. See Toh 1005, , for details.
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4. This obeisance formula is not part of the main text, but the so-called translators’ obeisance (’gyur phyag).
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5. It is not at all clear where these spirits came from, and it is still less clear why they are in Sukhāvatī.
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6. Here we have translated according to the Sanskrit (Hidas 2021, p. 33, item no. 3; and p. 52, item no. 40) and the Tibetan of the sibling text, The Twelve Names. The Tibetan here, rin po che rab tu sbyin ma, suggests an underlying reading of *Ratnapradā.
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7. This is the reading of Stok Palace and the Sanskrit of the sibling text. Both Degé versions transmit ghrini.
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8. The names or epithets translated into Tibetan are (1) Śrī, (2) Lakṣmī, (3) Padmamālinī, (4) Dhanādhipati, (5) Gaurī, (6) Mahāyaśāḥ, (7) Padmanetrī, (8) Mahādyuti, (9) Kartrī, (10) Annadāyinī, (11) Ratnaprabhā (), and (12) Mahāśrī. The rest of the spell may be translated as follows: “May it be so! jini ghriṇi, O Accomplisher of All Goals, O Hare-Marked One (an epithet of the moon)! Destroy my destitution! May these mantra-words be accomplished for me! Oṁ One Furling Her Eyebrows, O Supremely Fortunate One svāhā.” Note that “One Furling Her Eyebrows” is also the name of a goddess, Bhṛkuṭī, sometimes appearing as an ectype of Tārā.
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9. We observe the following differences in the Sanskrit version of the sibling text: (a) recitation at the three junctures of the day is not mentioned; (b) inexhaustible wealth is not among the promises; (c) it is not other people who are being met with but the king; (d) Brahmā and brahmins do not perform harmful rituals, but the god Great Brahmā (Mahābrahmā) appears and bestows a desired boon.